RADEBAUGH, A Great Decorative Print - 1939 Dodge Series - Mid Century Space DECO- Legendary Futurist Imagineer Arthur Radebaugh

RADEBAUGH, A Great Decorative Print - 1939 Dodge Series - Mid Century Space DECO- Legendary Futurist Imagineer Arthur RadebaughTreasures from THE RADEBAUGH COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review. Print size 24 x 18, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 18 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. _______________________________________________________________________ THESE ARTHUR RADEBAUGH PRINTS ARE EXCLUSIVE TO OUR COMPANY, THE GRAND REVIEW. The story of futurist illustrator Arthur Radebaugh is long and

Treasures from THE RADEBAUGH COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.  Print size 24 x 18, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 18 frame, or custom framed as you see fit.  
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THESE ARTHUR RADEBAUGH PRINTS ARE EXCLUSIVE TO OUR COMPANY, THE GRAND REVIEW.

The story of futurist illustrator Arthur Radebaugh is long and delightfully multi faceted.  It is well told in the recently completed documentary CLOSER THAN WE THINK, by filmmaker Brett Ryan Bonowicz which made its well received debut at the Other World Austin festival.

My role, as an historian and rabid collector of unusual imagery, was to be in the right place at the right moment to acquire a lost portfolio of his work, and to recognize that here was someone worth snatching from obscurity and savoring every morsel of information we could find about this undeservedly obscure imagineer.

With my associate Jared Rosenbaum, we curated an exhibit that took form at exactly the pace we could fill in the blanks.  The resulting exhibition was an international hit, thanks to what was the brand new internet, and with the early interest and therefor world wide heads up given the rediscovered Radebaugh by Popular Science on line.

The prints here at The Grand Review are selections from that exhibit, called RADEBAUGH, THE FUTURE WE WERE PROMISED.  The show traveled from Philadelphia  to The Utopiales Festival in Nantes, which proved a wonderful adventure for me, my wife, Jared and his fiance.

When it returned to the States, Jared Rosenbaum recurated the exhibit and took it to Detroit where it was given the honor of serving as the inaugural exhibit for the brand new facility for The National Automotive History Collection.

Next year, Chicago based design history author Tim Lapetino will present a book on the story of our favorite futurist, and we’re looking forward to it.

Over the next year, we will add a few more prints to the collection, mostly obscure and sometimes unacknowledged rarities we discovered and stashed away over the past decade.

Now, we are very happy to present this modest collection of extraordinary works by the rediscovered Arthur Radebaugh.

Enjoy!!!

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A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS.

Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps.  The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands.  That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here.  See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.

Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road.  I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle!  So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.